READING BETWEEN THE LINES
Why is Kucinich still in the race?
By Lance Selfa | April 23, 2004 | Page 9
EVERY TIME Socialist Worker publishes a story that mentions a criticism of U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, we get dozens of letters complaining that we are giving Kucinich short shrift. No doubt this column won’t be any different.
This tells us that Kucinich has a loyal group of supporters who believe that it’s important to argue for their candidate in left-wing forums. It would be hard to conceive of anyone having the same amount of devotion to presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry.
Nevertheless, it’s important to ask just what Kucinich is up to today--and what he’s asking his supporters to do--long after Kerry has sewn up the Democratic nomination. He insists that he will stay in the race until the Democratic convention in July to fight for progressive policy planks in the Democratic platform.
As he put it in an April 14 appeal for funds on his campaign Web site: "Help keep alive the debate about Iraq. Help keep alive the hopes of people for a single-payer, national health care system. Help keep alive workers' rights, human rights, and environmental quality principles and trade agreements. Help keep alive the efforts to repeal the PATRIOT Act. Help keep alive the progressive movement inside the Democratic Party."
While this succinctly summarizes Kucinich’s reason for staying in the race, it also highlights the biggest problem with...(Full Story)
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